The Fifth Element

For all of those who suffered the hardships of looking for that song, I finally discovered that it's called "Alaach Taadi", Arabic meaning: "Why run away?", which fits the taxi chase scene perfectly. This song belongs to a world-famous Rai artist known as Khaled. It's part of his "N'ssi N'ssi" album (Arabic meaning: Forget! Forget!). I thought that this song (like most of you) would be included in this Serra's album. Khaled's famous 5th Element Taxi Chase Scene is available at Amazaon.com.
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When I looked this up I was very surprised that it got high ratings from everyone else. I expected to be like the only one that liked this CD! For starters, I'm not the kind of person you'd expect to buy this CD. I'm fourteen, and I like alternative and rock. However, I have a soft spot for orchestral material too (HUGE Mozart fan, haha), and am very fond of movie scores and compositions. Often times I'll be carrying something like the Sleepy Hollow score and other teens will ask me what artists are on the album, and I'll be like,"No. You don't get it." I pretty much decided to get this soundtrack when I found out "The Diva Dance" was on it. It's actually amazing how almost every single piece of music in the movie is in the soundtrack. Besides the uniquely electronic-sounding tracks that give the movie a futuristic appeal, the orchestral score on this soundtrack is absoulutely gorgeous. The main Leeloo theme (that line of notes that is sort of music box-like that...Read more

This is a brilliant, if not experimental soundtrack! I'm not qualified to compare this to Eric Serra's other works but if this is any indication of his talents then I must check out his other compositions. "The Fifth Element" is a futuristic sci-fi action-comedy and the music captures that perfectly. The movie was rather good but I found myself turning the volume up whenever the funky rhythms came on. This album is an excellent marriage of cinematic orchestral and middle eastern with synthy beats. The flow is nicely balanced and, while most of it is funky at best, some are actually quite mellow and lush, as displayed in the surprisingly beautiful "Leeloo" with its subtle flourishment of strings, which blends into the dramatic, easy listening (ie, piano), chilled-out electronic fusioned "Five Millenia Later".
Most shocking of all is the groovy reggae tune "Heat", which SHOULD sound out of place but actually fits in well with this strange, eclectic union of genres. And of course...Read more